From Adrian Tchaikovsky, acclaimed author of The Shadows of the Apt series - see our review of latest -9th - installment, War Master's Gate, with links to reviews of all previous 8 books as well as to our interview with him - and the wonderful small UK press NewCon comes "Feast and Famine" which contains a very diverse offering ranging from hard sf to ghost stories and ending with what else but a Shadows of the Apt story set in the Dragonfly Commonweal and which features recurring characters that appear also in the story The Chains of Helleron; through the kindness of the author, you can read both these stories on the author's site following the previous link.

Here is the blurb and the table of contents:

"In Feast and Famine Adrian Tchaikovsky delivers an ambitious and varied
collections of stories. Ranging from the deep space hard SF of the title
story (originally in Solaris Rising 2) to the high fantasy of “The Sun
in the Morning” (a Shadows of the Apt tale originally featured in
Deathray magazine), from the Peter S Beagle influenced “The Roar of the
Crowd” to the supernatural Holmes-esque intrigue of “The Dissipation
Club” the author delivers a dazzling array of quality short stories that
traverse genre. Ten stories in all, five of which appear here for the
very first time.Contents:

1. More Than Meets the Eye - An Introduction2. Feast & Famine3. The Artificial Man4. The Roar of the Crowd5. Good Taste6. The Dissipation Club7. Rapture8. Care9. 2144 and All That10. The God Shark11. The Sun of the Morning12. About the Author

13. Adrian Tchaikovsky and NewCon Press

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From editors Anne Perry, Jared Shurin and small UK press Jurassic London comes The Lowest Heaven with the blurb and contents below. Any anthology that has stories by Adam Roberts and Alastair Reynolds is a must buy for me, while here there are also stories by JC Grimwood, Mark Newton, Simon Morden, Lavie Tidhar, Kameron Hurley among other authors we enjoy and review at FBC.

"The Lowest Heaven is a
new anthology of contemporary science fiction published in partnership
with the Royal Observatory Greenwich to coincide with Visions of the
Universe, a major exhibition of space imagery.

Each story in The
Lowest Heaven is themed around a body in the Solar System, from the Sun
to Halley's Comet. The stories are illustrated with photographs and
artwork selected from the archives of the Royal Observatory, while the
book's cover and overall design are the work of award-winning South
African illustrator Joey Hi-Fi."Includes:

Introduction by Dr. Marek Kukula (Royal Observatory Greenwich)"Golden Apple" by Sophia McDougall (The Sun)"A Map of Mercury" by Alastair Reynolds (Mercury)"Ashen Light" by Archie Black (Venus)"The Krakatoan" by Maria Dahvana Headley (Earth)"An account of a voyage from World to World again, by way of the Moon, 1726" by Adam Roberts (The Moon)"WWBD" by Simon Morden (Mars)"Saga's Children" by E. J. Swift (Ceres)"The Jupiter Files" by Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Jupiter)"Magnus Lucretius" by Mark Charan Newton (Europa)"Air, Water and the Grove" by Kaaron Warren (Saturn)"Only Human" by Lavie Tidhar (Titan)"Uranus" by Esther Saxey (Uranus)"From This Day Forward" by David Bryher (Neptune)"We'll Always Be Here" by S. L. Grey (Pluto & Charon)"Enyo-Enyo" by Kameron Hurley (Eris)"The Comet's Tale" by Matt Jones (Halley's Comet)"The Grand Tour" by James Smythe (Voyager)

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And finally, while not that much information yet, Sibilant Fricative, the highly anticipated non-fiction collection of Adam Roberts is moving along to be released soon by NewCon press. Agree or disagree, but there is no question that Adam Roberts' witty reviews (some would say, a bit too much so on occasion) and his genre essays are always a pleasure to read, so this is another must for me.

"...Two: in the mid-term future, there's something else. The estimable Ian Whates, and more specifically his excellent NewCon Press,
are going to publish a collection of my sf-related non-fiction. This is
confected of various items, including a fair few of the less disposable
Punkadiddle pieces, some of which (it turns out! who knew!) are
quite lengthy; and the collection will be available soon. It will be
called Sibilant Fricative, see, and when it comes out I'll use this blog for minimum-efficiency promotion, see"